Re: Allocators design flaw

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:

>> If the C struct needs alignment greater than that of the elements of
>> which it is composed (see the AI for example) it would have it.
>
> "it would have it"? What this sequence of English words mean?

it would have such an alignment

  struct chrs {
    char c[10];
  }

only *needs* alignment of 1

  struct chrs {
    int last;
    char c[256];
  }

needs the alignment of int (4 on this Mac)

(aploogies if the C isn't correct)